The main thing I hate about American politics in particular now is the reliance on parasocial figurehead worship. Everything is about who has the best photo op, who can have the best witty comebacks, using young children and wives as props to look like you lead a perfect, socially acceptable life.

Trying to figure out what furniture and storage stuff to buy each month since our disposable income is super limited this year. The kitchen storage is finally workable, so this month we're buying a cheap bookshelf and probably going to prioritize buying clothes or other things for ourselves instead.

Trying to fix my sleep schedule is agony. I woke up around 3 am but I still feel exhausted and can't work up the motivation to play further in Kara no Shoujo because I know I can't get the true ending on my first run-through so now I need to backtrack.

I kind of lost it today thinking about all the bullshit happening. Now we're just giving women more reasons to blame themselves and be hyper-anxious during pregnancy. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is one of the safest medications a person can take. Typically people do take it in a low dose

In addition to the previous thread, I recently feel like I want to put a lot more effort into improving nit-picky parts of my translations, as well as expand my Japanese vocabulary and grammar knowledge even more. I'd love to enhance my creative writing ability too. I also started drawing again

It's been a very busy couple of weeks for me. I got my new residence card recently and actually got 3 years! I'm really happy since it came as a surprise.

It's been a while of living at our new place, and we both agree that if we move again before having kids, we'll probably get a smaller place. We basically have no use for the 3rd room after all, especially since neither of us does remote work.

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On another note, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. An organization should try to recognize the individual capabilities of each employee and especially what they can't do well, without forcing them to fit into a role they aren't suited/motivated for. This also includes what's reasonable

It's a bit frustrating how sick I get just from a day of walking around in this weather. Granted, it really isn't a healthy temperature for human beings to exist in...

Moving tomorrow! Have to set up my wifi at my new place today as well as pack everything/disassemble my bed and desk so... Pretty busy 😭 At the very least, I'm at the stage where I can mostly just throw everything in boxes without too much care.

Well my internet company turned the wifi off at my apartment 2 days early. So that's pretty fantastic!

It feels like I always mess everything up. I'm not good with people. It feels like whether I try to avoid people or not, I always ruin other people's lives or make things harder for them somehow. If I'm not there, or if I'm there. Work is an escape for me, but I'm messing up there too.

I just want to say K-Pop Demon Hunters looks really good. I don't have time to watch it, but I can tell a lot of effort was put into it and it genuinely looks like a movie that will be remembered for years to come. Bravo to the team who made it.

I'm finally getting things mostly figured out for the move, but I'm 0% packed so far... Next week is definitely going to be very difficult trying to get everything done on top of a busy work week.

Once the move is all done, I might consider starting freelancing again. It really depends if I gain extra free time on weekends or not. Both my boyfriend and I are pretty introverted and indoorsy, so I can already foresee us both working on our own projects over an entire weekend lol.

On the translation side of things, I'm very pleased with how some recent things turned out. Those translations meant a lot to me and I'm proud I could achieve what I wanted to. But now that my translations have reached a certain level, I want to find even more ways to improve.

It's crazy to think I'll be moving soon. This apartment felt like a really positive change in direction for me. I'm grateful for the happiness I was able to find while living here. I felt like I could be happy in Japan all on my own. Then I met my boyfriend pretty much right after that lol.

It's been a long time so admittedly I don't remember how much the characters rely on Takeru, but reading Muv Luv which features a basically all-woman military force really inspired me. Unironically.

My boyfriend and I finally found an apartment and passed their screening!! I'm hoping to move in by mid/late July. The whole thing happened within just a few days, but after so many months of searching, it feels so incredible... 😭

Today I rolled right out of bed in my sleep and body-slammed the floor. What a way to wake up...

I can't get an accurate idea of what's happening in the news anymore.

Still trying to decide what to do with my hair. As it turns out, the price for getting a haircut, bleach, and color is a little under 30,000 yen in Tokyo. I was interested in doing a really complicated look, but the price..........

Yuzu really is one of the best tasting ingredients used in Japanese food. It tastes so good in broth, in tea, in chocolate... Everything is better with yuzu.

This month feels much better so far. I'm still immensely disappointed in myself for this year. But I'm glad I pushed myself through something challenging. I'm very worried about a lot of things. I just can't summarize it all.

Trying to figure out what to do with my hair. I want to make a big change since I'm finally bored of doing the same color and style each time I visit the salon, but it's also almost the most humid time of the year and taking a risk right before that doesn't seem smart...!

I've also been working on a really difficult translation recently. It's nearing the end but it's made me realize what is hard for me to work on vs. what is easy (or at least intuitive). What I struggle with: stories I cannot emotionally relate to easily.

The past 2 weeks of this month have been pretty hellish for me. I'm finally getting over my cold but it did take about 2 full weeks for that to happen. It severely affected my sleep because lying down made me cough horribly (it felt like liquid was entering my lungs).

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This illness has been a complete nightmare lol. I'd like to say I haven't felt this bad in a long time, but I caught the flu around New Year's so this is my second horrible virus of the year. The medications I was given are finally starting to work and my fever seems to be gone as of 1 pm...

Fever not going away. It's been 2 days... It went down a bit today but only when accidentally doubling up on 2 fever aids. My throat feels horrible every time I swallow. Can't stop coughing.

Waking up to a fever is pretty miserable lol. Checked my temperature a lot last night but it went up in my sleep. I have no idea what this could be at this time of year. I definitely caught this from a packed train where a guy coughed and snotted on all of us Friday night...

I haven't talked about translation in a while, but I'm still working lol. It's fun to work on different styles of writing. Recently I've been working on something where the breadth of unique vocab is so high, it's motivated me to increase not only my Japanese vocab, but my vocab in English lol.

I forgot how much better it is to socialize on a Friday night. That way, you wake up to 2 more days off...

I also want to keep learning and appreciate the many modes of creativity there are. I want to revel in how much joy there is to life rather than focus on its fleeting nature. So even knowing I won't get very far in any new venture, I'd like to enjoy the ventures available while I can.

There's a lot to be anxious about, but thinking about every potential bad thing that could happen all at once isn't productive or protective. I'm trying to get out of that habit and appreciate the good times. That takes trust in oneself to be able to handle challenges if they happen.

Everyone I know caught the same cold, it's a bit funny how quickly these spread in Tokyo lol.

Kind of surreal to have seen a seiyuu of a character I've translated completely by coincidence at an event today lol

An old coworker of mine from a previous job here just went to visit Portland and made the food look so good in her stories, and the city look so fun lol. Sometimes I do miss the weirdness and overall atmosphere of it. Tokyo has areas that somewhat mirror it, but Portland is truly unique.

Well for various reasons we're possibly going to try for kids soon regardless of logic and finances. lol. Though at this point, I think God has it out for us in terms of literally everything

It's golden week!!! 4 days off!!! ........! I still find this year's GW pretty funnily short, I can't believe it's this bad... June and July here have basically no holidays too lol.

I have an electric kettle but they are such a pain to keep clean, I'm probably going to return to an old-school kettle after moving. I really am hoping we can find an apartment soon, it's been an up-hill battle on that for sure lol.

Can someone at Google please allow me to turn off AI search results? I don't want to destroy the planet any further. Thank you. Also, it's always wrong for what I search for. So it is useless.

Boyfriend sees a wallet left on a bench, picks it up so we can take it to a police box and the guy sitting on the bench beside it decides to film him taking it... I assume the whole thing was some kind of skit/set up but if so, that's a really shitty thing to do and falsely frame people for.

It's been nice to go to doctors because they view my medical history and don't try to rush me to improve at all, or blame me. It's not a race. There doesn't even need to be a goal besides seeing if it gets easier or not. It was always a race when someone needed me to get better to love me.

I finally filed my US taxes today. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted lol.

This week I am feeling a lot more creatively motivated. It does help a lot to translate daily at work. Creativity and the ability to pour myself into something else is very helpful. I've been doing a lot of the more technical side of translation this past week though, so I'm hoping to

This year has been very difficult this far. But I've been pouring all of my effort into my main job and I still have a very strong desire to make games and translate. まだ翻訳とゲーム作りに熱心があるが、今年は特に辛くて、今までの活動量を減らさなければいけませんでした。父が病気で、自分も病気で、頑張れる量はいつもより小さくなってしまいました。それは後悔しつつ、今年は決してキャリアに集中する年じゃないと理解してきました。

The Switch 2 pricing doesn't bother me. It completely makes sense for them to prioritize the domestic market's needs and the domestic economic reality. People here do not have excess income to spend on expensive hardware and are unlikely to play in other languages.

私の人生は皆を怒らせていると思うようになる一ヶ月。頑張っても、乗り越えないような予感はある。我が儘の自業自得か、何なのか。神様から印を得られたら正しい選択ができるのかな。それとも弱さでそれすらできないか。救いや頼れる存在ほとんどない。周りが自分の託されるもの、どんどん盗んで、逃げ去れていく。そもそも何が欲しかった。誰に捧げたかった。等、考えて疲労を深く感じる。意味はないかも。末はないかも。そのような日々重ねだけど。その中でも凄く嬉しい。周り大好き。何も上手くコントロールできないけど、それでいい。今日の日記。